The Money Store (album)

The Money Store
a black and white drawing of a scantily clad female sexual dominant smoking and holding a topless female submissive in a pig mask on a leash. The words “DEATH GRIPS” are crudely carved into the latter’s chest just above her breasts.
Uncensored cover. The censored artwork includes a white bar with the album name printed over the breasts.
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 14, 2012 (YouTube leak)

April 20, 2012 (Coachella 2012 cassette release)

April 21, 2012 (Record Store Day 2012 Vinyl LP release)

April 24, 2012 (Official worldwide release)
Recorded2011–2012
Genre
Length41:23
LabelEpic
Producer
Death Grips chronology
Exmilitary
(2011)
The Money Store
(2012)
No Love Deep Web
(2012)

The Money Store is the debut studio album by American experimental hip hop trio Death Grips. It is the follow-up to their debut mixtape, Exmilitary. The album was officially released on April 24, 2012, but had been leaked to YouTube on April 14,[4] sold by the band at Coachella on cassette on April 20, and made available on vinyl on April 21 to celebrate Record Store Day.[5] The Money Store was announced alongside the group's second album, No Love Deep Web, which was released later in the year.[5][6]

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  3. ^ Pitchfork Staff (October 8, 2019). "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 4, 2023. Death Grips' proper debut album captured the barking, unstoppable information overload of the 2010s in a burst of experimental rap and rock.
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